Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-04
Ter by going TO sleep, and she said she
wasn't sleeuv. hut would trv

the Doctor said that probably her
head WAS too high, and Mr.
loth said II would rather you would
come over We went over, and as we
entered the room where she was no
ticed 10y the clock that it was twenty
minutes past 9. She had fallen into .
sort OF stupor. and the Doctor aroused
her and asked her il she knew him, aud
she said '1he Doctor Those were
her last words. / said: Charlie,
suppose you put another plaster
On her. had gotten several
plastcrs ready. and he was feeling
her pulse. He answered No (; wait a
minute Then Mr.. 10th said Mrs.
Gardner don't worry the Doctor he
knows what he is about. / told Mr..
10th the reason always thought about
plasters was because they used to use
so many on my mother.
y WHAT CAUSED THE DOCTORS ANGER.
After Mrs. Loth's last words she
had swooned, and the Doctor pulled her
nose just as Lizzie, one of heI
daughters, entered and said: 'Oh,
don't do that, Doctor and when she
saw her mother unconscious, she ex-
claimed Mama is going to die. Tha;
last dose Of morphine killed her. !
knew she was going to take too much.
! never did like morphine This !
what made the Doctor angry. He is
very quick tempered, and afterwards.
You know, he refused to go for medi-
cine. That's where he made a false
step.
DIR. TRTvILIAN SENT FOR.
"Well, he suggested that DIR. Ire
william be sent for. which was done
and Miss Fisher, who had gone home
when we did, was also sent for. She
arrived before DR.. Trevilian. The let
ter came about 10 o'clock, walked into
the room, and shook hands with me
the first one He then walked TO the
bed, felt Mrs. Loth's pulse, and re-
marked 'She is pretty bad off, OF
words to that effect. DR.. Gardner al
svorod yes Mrs. Fisher, who had
Just come in, said What doe,
the doctor think of her?' and
almost in the same breath, |, not an
sWering Mrs. Fishers question, said
DIR. Trevilian, do you think Mrs. Lot
is any bettCr?' He said NO. He haa
very little to say, and l think he Wa
angry because he had not been sent fol
first. by the way, DR.. Trevilisn in hi'
testimony at the court said | threw NJ
my hands and said Doctor, for God'l
sake save her l said nothing Of th,
kind"
Didn't Mrs. 10th like DR.. Tre
viIian?"
"No, don't think she did. She hao
told ire that if Dr. Irevilian were {.
die or leave the city that she wont.
make DR.. Gardner her family phys;
clan. -
"V.hat time did Mrs. 10th die ?"
at twenty-five minutes to O'Clock
They had sent for the gllvanic battery
Won know and Mrs. Gardner shud
darod as she spoke Of Mrs. 10th
writings and contortlons while tn.
battery was being used.
81 think il Mr.. 10th had had hi
way" continued Mrs. Gardner, "thi
whole affair would have been KEEP
oniet but for the fact that for severa
months before, whenever Mrs. Lott
bad these attacks, she wOuld generally
fiet send for DR.. Gardner, and woul,
be- ali right by the time DR.. rreviliaI
arrived. About ten days before she die,
she came over here with some NOR
phine pellets given her by DR.. Trevilian
and said she had taken some Of them
lut liat they did not have any effect
She said she had not taken any tina
day and she wanted DR.. Gardner +,
giyc her a hypodermic injection. IL
told her that her sleeves were too tigh
to roll up and that he couldn't give hel
tbe injection. She forthwith rippeC
one of them open TO the shoulder an,
be gave her Tie injection.
"Were you and Mrs. 10th on goo,
terms?'
"Ycs; the best possible relations eI
isted between us. l had known he
ever since last July, and the first tins
she called on me she stayed three hours
She was over here almost every day
and We would go out on our from
porchesand ring each others door-bells
and stand ont there and talk by tn
hour. ] really loved her and would dc
ANYTHING ! could for her children 70
her sake.
at has been said that your husban,
was drunk when he attended Mrs. Lot
in her last Illness. What have you t
say about this ?"
THAT he was not drunk, posltiyel,
asserted Mrs. Gardner. elf he ha,
been drunk he would not have beer
over there. If he had been drunk
would not have let him go over there
Dut he had net been out during tn
day, l think, and he only drank in tn
house his usual dram before each meal
# be had been drunk OF course woul'
havc known it. "
This affair has caused us a grea
deal Of trouble and modification, add
ed Mrs. Gardner, land the only won
der is that ] am not sick. | have fel
terribly about it, as you may imagine
4 short time before it happened W
were thinking about going to Washing
ton to live. but We will stay here nov
or people would soy the Doctor wa
running away.
Gone other remark and | al
| through. l don't think the Docto
should have been kept from the pos
nOrfcm examination. He had as muc
| RIGHT there as DIR. Trevilian or DI
| Posher Since Mrs. Loth's death tw
phvsicians-neither one my husband
have expressed the belief that Mn
10th did not die from the effects G
morphine poison, Judging from the eyl
dence given out.
"When she ripped her sleeve ope
| that night she was asking the price OF
hypodermic syringe, and where sh
could Get one. She said If she coul
learn how to use it she would like t
have one; she needed it 50 often.
A sI.RIGH-BIDE.
"The last snow we had the Docto
| and / went out sleighing. As we wer
going Mrs. 10th came to the front WI
| dow and told the Doctor she wante
| him to give hera hypodermic injection
| / told her to get in with us and nc
to take the morphia that the Docto
would give it to her when she cam
back. She said she would go, for sh
| never refused a sleigh-ride, and put o.
her cloak. She brought out hassoc
10 mt her feet on and got in. Aboo